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My photo from the 21st floor of the New York Times Build­ing, in midtown.

A USAir­ways plane that took off at 3:26 p.m. from La Guardia Air­port landed in the Hud­son River five min­utes later, where it remains mostly sub­merged. Fer­ries and other boats con­verged to help with a res­cue effort, as the plane drifted south. There was no imme­di­ate infor­ma­tion about the 151 peo­ple on board.

Accord­ing to Chan­nel 4 tele­vi­sion news, the plane, USAir­ways flight 1549, took off from LaGuardia Air­port at 3:26 p.m. was bound for Char­lotte, N.C. and had 146 pas­sen­gers and 5 crew mem­bers. The plane, accord­ing to the news report, may have hit a flock of birds. The pilot tried to return to the air­port when the plane fell into the Hudson.

I watched from the 21st floor of the Times Build­ing, as the plan drifted south with the tide. I believe that the res­cue oper­a­tion com­pleted before it came into view, and it has since drifted out of view.

The plane did not break up on impact; divers, com­muter fer­ries and a lot of emer­gency per­son­nel are assist­ing with res­cue oper­a­tions. Every­one is reported to have sur­vived the crash and res­cue, as of this moment, but there are injuries. CNN is cur­rently inter­view­ing pas­sen­gers, live on-air.

A hun­dred or so peo­ple, wait­ing on line for today’s paper, in front of the Times head­quar­ters in midtown.

Every­body wants a sou­venir of Obama’s vic­tory, and you know what makes a great sou­venir? That’s right, a news­pa­per. This is a photo of a line out­side the NYT build­ing on 40th Street of peo­ple waiting—for a newspaper!

I hope that peo­ple still come to the Times for more than just a souvenir.

“Three years ago the Plant City police found a girl lying in her roach-infested room, naked except for an over­flow­ing dia­per. The child, pale and skele­tal, com­mu­ni­cated only through grunts. She was almost 7 years old.”

There is also a com­pan­ion mul­ti­me­dia piece, with a video slideshow about Danielle’s progress, includ­ing speech ther­apy sessions.

If you’re curi­ous about life in this small Florida farm­ing town, the New Yorker has an unre­lated piece on Plant City this week.

Work­men remove a flyer left behind by David Mal­one, who climbed the New York Times Build­ing sev­eral hours before.

For the third time in five weeks, some­one has scaled the out­side of The New York Times Head­quar­ters. This time, how­ever, it was over and done before most of us got out of bed:

Unlike the two pre­vi­ous climbers, this one — iden­ti­fied later as David Mal­one, a 29-year-old activist from West Hart­ford, Conn., who stud­ies Al Qaeda — did not attempt to make his way to the roof. Instead, he unfurled a ban­ner around the fifth floor of the 52-story build­ing, before climb­ing a few more stories.